{"id":868,"date":"2019-12-14T21:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T21:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world-uncensored.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2021-11-01T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:03:19","slug":"college-rankings-are-important-but-flawed-to-show-that-the-world-uncensored-made-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world-uncensored.com\/blog\/college-rankings-are-important-but-flawed-to-show-that-the-world-uncensored-made-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"College Rankings are Important – but Flawed. To show that, The World Uncensored made its own."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Few factors have as much of an influence on an incoming undergraduates’ decision of which university to attend as higher education rankings. For many prospective students, prestige and reputation play some of the biggest roles in their college decision. Applying to all Ivy League schools, or all “top 10” or “top 20” schools has become a common way to go about the application process for high-performing students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no single ranking is flawless. Rankings such as Reuters’ “The World’s Most Innovative Universities” place emphasis on different factors than Times Higher Education’s “World University Rankings” or the University of Leiden’s ranking of scientific impact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of these and many other differences, universities may score highly in some rankings but considerably lower in others. The World Uncensored decided to take a look at 9 global university rankings and see where universities end up when we combine them all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note how the range of scores for each individual university varies greatly. Some universities may have over 100 spots separating their highest-performing from their lowest-performing ranking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This goes to show that, while college rankings play an incredibly important role in decisions on which institution to attend for students and faculty, as well as decisions about funding and investment, these rankings are far from perfect and the position a university comes out in depends heavily on who sets the rules of the ranking and what they think are important factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new ranking is not so much intended to be just another list of colleges but instead is meant to show how different existing rankings agree and disagree about the “quality” of various institutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Methodology <\/strong>for this ranking is as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n